Re: Getting Covid After Vaccination

Drythe · ‎07-09-2011

@Nonametoday wrote

I have to take it in order for my doctor to see me and same with my husband. They are refusing to see their patients in situ if they have not had the vaccination. So, we can't lose our doctors. We need our medications.

But I have immunoglobulin deficiency so I am somewhat afraid for myself but even worse, my husband is a very frail patient with many conditions and this frightens me as two people in our age group in our community with atrial fib-flutter had strokes after the first vaccination. So, to say the least, I am not looking forward to it but must proceed.

@Nonametoday

As a person with two autoimmune disorders, I understand your concerns. Your physician, just as you, wants to make what he deems the best possible choices for his own health, and that of his family. He also has the responsibility for the well being of his staff, and other patients.

Apparently, his decision is that the safest practice is to require his patients to have the vaccine. Of course He can’t force you to have it if you don’t want to, you have the choice to change physicians.

My father is 93, type 2 diabetic, with a pacemaker, and he is getting his first vaccine tomorrow. His Cardiologists have approved it, and he wants to take it, but it is truly a scary thing.

At this time we just all have to be aware of the available information and make our own best judgements.

Hopefully, you will be able to work out what is best for you.

"Animals are not my whole world, but they have made my world whole" ~ Roger Caras

10sluvr · ‎03-10-2010

@bmorechick wrote:
@Carmie wrote:
No where has it been said or proven that the vaccine will keep you from getting Covid. You most certainally can get Covid after the vaccine.

It will keep you from having symptoms and keep you out of the hospital. That's how it works.

You still have to social distance and wear a mask even if vaccinated. You could be passing Covid to an unvaccinated person after you were vaccinated and not know it.

Most of us are not in a position to be tested regularly after we have been vaccinated like our law makers. So, there will we many vaccinated people walking around and potentially passing Covid to others.
From my nurse daughter who works in a covid unit, yes that is how it works. You get the shot to tamper down symptoms should you contract it. Because of the newness of the virus, the two shot dose is probably a precaution due to the extreme contagion factor and the amount of people who have gotten it. More than likely, if one chooses to vaccinate regularly, it will be one dose like the flu shot. I got the flu when I was maybe 30 years old and I can tell you, I was never sicker in my life...and I was and still am active and athletic. My husband got it from me and he was just as sick. After that, we got the flu shot every year and that has been 35 years worth of flu shots. Never got the flu again.

Being in health care, I already got covid dose 1. No side effects at all. I get dose 2 mid Feb and will be happy. I double mask, carry hand sanitizer in my coat pockets and a container of wipes in my car to wipe down the grocery cart before I grab it. I do not trust stores are actually disinfecting. I believe we will return to normalcy at some point, but probably not until 2023. My sister in law works with Fauci's team at NIH and thats the consensus there.

here, in MI, about 30% of front line health care workers are refusing to take vaccine. Does your daughter find that to be true, where she works? i'm wondering if they are anti-vaxers or wait and see vaxers? no one is saying why they are refusing and others are lining up. it makes the average person wonder.

chrystaltree · ‎05-10-2010

I haven't seen, read or heard any of that. I do know that when you get the vaccine, you are not fully protected for about 3 weeks after the second shot. It's the 1st shot, the booster 3 weeks later and 3 weeks later, immunity sets in. So, yes. Of course a person can get Covid 19 after the first or after the second shot. You have to understand that we are in uncharted territory here, Covid is a new virus so they are still learning. You seem to think there's a difference between having the virus and being asymptomatic and having the virus and being sick. There's no difference. If the vaccine protects from acquiring the virus...period. It's not two separate Covid 19 viruses; one that makes people sick and another one that is asymptomatic.

Mindy D · ‎05-23-2010

@henderson wrote:
I just got the vaccine (1st one) at Southern Nevada Health District. They handed out an information sheet on the Pzfizer vaccine which said "The Pfixer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is an unapproved vaccine that may prevent COVID-19. There is no FDA-approved vaccine to prevent COVID-19 It may prvent you from getting COVID-19." I thought it was approved by the FDA.

@henderson @So far, the COVID vaccines have emergency use authorization. This is different than full approval. Here's what this difference in status means from the FDA.

https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/vaccines/emergency-use-authorization-vaccines-explained